Senior Test Technician

Due to continued growth, TRC Field Services (FSV) is seeking more Senior Test Technicians to support our Client Teams in our South Central Region. With a staff of over 200 experienced utility and industrial commissioning engineers and test technicians, TRC delivers comprehensive, cost-effective solutions safely to our Electric Utility Customers while providing the best training programs and mentors in this industry and numerous opportunities for growth with excellent benefits.

TRC is one of the premier national providers of testing and commissioning solutions in the country. Our staff undergoes extensive, in-house training, ensuring efficient project start up and adherence to your individual standards and specifications. We follow well documented procedures and guidelines to ensure safe and thorough planning and testing, so we can manage risk and safeguard ongoing operations.

Senior Test Technicians report to the Regional Manager, Testing and Commissioning Services and are responsible for conducting tests on complex electrical, electronic and mechanical equipment. Senior Test Technicians test electrical equipment including but not limited to: power transformers, protective relays, circuit breakers, control and supervisory equipment, voltage regulators and other equipment within an electric utility substations, generating stations, or industrial plants.

• Understand and utilize the latest industry testing and commissioning standards and guidelines such as IEEE and NETA
• Provide high level customer service, consistently delivers quality services and maintains highly professional and respectful relationship with clients & Tea
• Promote efficient flow of information and ensure complete and accurate record keeping
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and problem analysis (or the ability to learn) associated with protection and control systems and utility substation equipment, including but not limited to: Application Errors and Omissions, Drawing Errors and Omissions, Wiring Errors and Omissions, Settings Errors and Omissions, Equipment Malfunctions, Questionable Apparatus Test Results, Battery Ground Faults
• Provides support in areas of high technical complexity.  May be required to serve as the interface for the group with other Company departments, outside consultants, contractors, suppliers, and manufacturers on technically related matters.  Shall serve as technical reviewer on assigned projects.
• Participate in project meetings including but not limited to:  kickoff meetings, planning meetings, progress meetings, lessons learned meetings.
• Identify risks and associated mitigation techniques on utility systems and equipment.  Develop a Site Risk Assessment to document all high-risk construction and commissioning activities and to formalize the processes of circuit isolation and restoration in a manner that ensures no unintended operations of station equipment and protection systems and personnel safety.
• Prepare detailed daily, weekly, and project completion reports and documentation that includes project progress, issues or problems, recommendations, test results and analyses
• Ensure proper project drawing management and general housekeeping is kept onsite at all times.  Ensure Working/Field Copy of project drawings updated continuously throughout the project to ensure they accurately reflect the as-left condition of the project at the end of each day.
• Make certain all applicable tests and/or commissioning activities are performed on every piece of equipment or system in accordance with planning and project documents.  Make certain all test results are acceptable and permanently recorded, filed and distributed properly.  Execute tests and develop detailed test reports of various types of electrical equipment.  Review and approve detailed test reports of various types of electrical equipment.
• Assist other engineers and technicians, as required, during commissioning and startup of systems and equipment
• Conduct TRC’s formal walkdown procedure prior to energizing any equipment
• Microprocessor Relays – Familiarity with Software, Settings and Logic Application and Testing (SEL, GE, ABB, ZIV, Alstom, Beckwith, NXTPhase).  Perform isolation, setpoint testing, advanced logic testing, scheme testing (reclosing, breaker failure, pilot scheme, end-to-end satellite)
• Electromechanical and Solid State Relays - Familiarity with Application and Testing Techniques, Literature (GE, ABB, Westinghouse, Basler).  Perform isolation, setpoint testing
• Audio Tone Equipment - Setup, tune, program, audio tone equipment (Trench, RFL, Guard/Trip, FSK)
• Examples of Equipment to be tested – SF6/Oil/Vacuum Breakers, Circuit Switchers, Power Transformers, Capacitor Banks, Bus, CTs, PTs, CCVTs, Wave Traps, Disconnect Switches, Surge Arrestors, Regulators, Reclosers, Cables, DC Battery Banks, Grounding, Generators, Station Service Transformers, AC/DC Panels
• Examples of tests to be performed – SF6 Gas, Oil Sampling, Vacuum Bottle Integrity, Core-Ground Test, Insulation Resistance, Winding Resistance, Nitrogen System, Power Factor, Excitation, Sweep Frequency Response Analysis, Turns Ratio, Polarity, Dielectric Withstand, Motion Analysis, Operating Mechanism Inspection, Contact Resistance, Capacitance, Inductance, Impedance, Disconnect Jaw and Blade Alignment, Battery Strap and Cell Resistance/Specific Gravity/Load Tests